IKONS [4 CD Set]

KISS - IKONS [4 CD Set]

IKONS [4 CD Set]
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Artist: KISS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-10-21
Music Label: Mercury
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. GOD OF THUNDER
  2. ALMOST HUMAN
  3. CALLING DR. LOVE
  4. LADIES ROOM
  5. CHRISTINE SIXTEEN
  6. DEUCE
  7. ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE
  8. COLD GIN
  9. PARASITE
  10. LARGER THAN LIFE
  11. LOVE `EM AND LEAVE `EM
  12. PLASTER CASTER
  13. RADIOACTIVE
  14. CHARISMA
Music CD 2
  1. DETROIT ROCK CITY
  2. LOVE GUN
  3. TAKE ME
  4. STRUTTER
  5. C'MON AND LOVE ME
  6. HOTTER THAN HELL
  7. 100,000 YEARS
  8. ROCK BOTTOM
  9. DO YOU LOVE ME
  10. ALL AMERICAN MAN
  11. MR. SPEED
  12. I STOLE YOUR LOVE
  13. WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW ME
  14. I WAS MADE FOR LOVIN' YOU
Music CD 3
  1. NEW YORK GROOVE
  2. SHOCK ME
  3. 2,000 MAN
  4. ROCKET RIDE
  5. SNOW BLIND
  6. SPEEDIN' BACK TO MY BABY
  7. TALK TO ME
  8. WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND
  9. RIP IT OUT
  10. SAVE YOUR LOVE
  11. HARD TIMES
  12. TWO SIDES OF THE COIN
  13. DARK LIGHT
  14. INTO THE VOID
Music CD 4
  1. HARD LUCK WOMAN
  2. BABY DRIVER
  3. HOOLIGAN
  4. BETH
  5. I CAN'T STOP THE RAIN
  6. BLACK DIAMOND
  7. MAINLINE
  8. DON'T YOU LET ME DOWN
  9. DIRTY LIVIN'
  10. GETAWAY
  11. STRANGE WAYS
  12. THAT'S THE KINDA SUGAR PAPA LIKES
  13. EASY THING
  14. I FINALLY FOUND MY WAY

Music reviews of IKONS [4 CD Set]

Music Review: KISS SOLOS 2K: 30 Years Later
Rating: 5 Stars

As you can tell by the title of my review, this <kompilation!!> is equivalent to the KISS Solo albums, Greatest Hits-styled, for each of the original KISS members. I, too, abhor all the dozens of versions of "Greatest Hits...", but really couldn't resist buying this one. It is the ONLY "hits" package I have bought since "YOU WANTED THE BEST..." during the band's reunion formation, not counting the NEW RECORDING BEST from Japan. (That is an incredible disc, by the way!)

I really have no major complaints about the track listing since I have all of the original vinyls and CDs, and can burn an "extended" version of these discs as I choose. My only change to this would have been to ixnay "Christine Sixteen." I HATE THAT SONG, and THEY INSIST ON CRAMMING IT DOWN OUR THROATS. (In this day and age, it reeks of illegal relations between adult and minor.....gross and immoral, but that's another story). Not only do they choose to keep this song around, they keep mis-crediting it to ROCK AND ROLL OVER (Paul credits it to ROCK AND ROLL OVER in just about every live recording I've heard), and Gene notoriously starts the song half-way through...and THAT'S when he even gets the lyrics RIGHT! Gene? Mr. KISS-Perfectionist/Ace and Peter were losers who couldn't keep up? Christine needs to be comitted to an asylum and forgotten about. (Now she'll probably get credited to ASYLUM on that note.)

As for adding songs, I AGREE WHOLE-HEARTEDLY with the many reviews about "Torpedo Girl" needing to be on here. I'm one of those fans who has a sentimental bond to the UNMASKED album simply because that was a fun album to swim to in 1980. That album was released in June 1980, and we finally got to break in a new swimming pool; how cool it was to "go out and take a swim today."

Another song I would have added: SHANDI. Why do they treat her like some whore at a family reunion and ignore her? I wish "Shandi" would tie "Christine" up and lock her in a closet.

This collection of songs, in my opinion, goes to show how much talent Ace had with the band (as he still does) and I find his disc the one that I have already listened to about 4 times all the way through. Ace and Paul maintained the KISS sound and attitude. These discs can't help but scream that out. To that end, only Ace had songs from UNMASKED represented here. I guess we will have to salivate over the Australian pressing in order to get "Shandi." No wait! We can burn our home-made versions for FREE with it.

I like Peter's disc a lot and am glad to see "I Can't Stop The Rain" on here. I was in New York last week and all I could say was "this is New York! Yo~!" and flying back home to Texas at night, there was lightning in the sky as I played this track over and over. It truly cemented a great trip with a great conclusion: complete with real lightning across the sky. The piano in "I Can't..." is very haunting. I think I finally realized that when listening to it this time around. We can thank Sean Delany for that great gem of a song. (I personally could do without the g-d word in it; I don't like that word let alone in a great song).

Gene's disc starts off ironically enough with "God Of Thunder," and for an opening to a disc...with the kids screaming, it's pretty cool.

It does come with a 24 page booklet with some rarely if never before seen photos, and is done up first class, as in all things KISS.

In conclusion, I just hope to show that this box set is really a "KISS SOLOS 2K: 30 Years Later." When you view the discs as "Greatest Hits" by the "IKONS", then it becomes much more enjoyable and understood. If you take the solo albums and swap the names of the members with "SPACEMAN," "CATMAN," "DEMON," and "STARCHILD," then you can much more easily see my analogy. While on topic of the solos, it wouldn't be quite the KISS product without the infamous solo album covers being represented: when you open the gatefold, each disc is placed in a pocket that has the corresponding members' solo cover. (I love the solo covers, but they are way over-used now.)

All in all, to those that wish to buy this collection, remember this: it is a second chance to buy KISS SOLO albums, 30 years later (1978-2008), and when you load the discs and let them go, it really does take you back in time to a good place: rock and roll-slash-fantasy-slash-fun.

This is a great collection to have. If you get ANNNNNNNNY of the G.H. packages, burn your money on this. It is a COLLECTORS' package, not a romper room novelty.

I've been a KISS fan non-stop for 31 years. This collection should have been released a long time ago, in this format.

Enjoy! Randy <kissfox>
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Description of IKONS [4 CD Set]

FOUR IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE PERSONAS.FOUR SUPERMEN, WHO COMPRISE ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND FLAMBOYANT BANDS ON THE PLANET. KISS: IKONS IS A 4-CD, 56-TRACK COLLECTOR'S PACKAGE CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF THE FOUR MOST IKONIC FIGURES IN ROCK 'N' ROLL.

Each disc highlights an "ikonic" character, spotlighting each founding member and their musical contributions to KISS by way of the songs they sang for this legendary band.

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